Answer to SQL Leetcode Question 183. Customers Who Never Order

Answer to SQL Leetcode Question 183

183. Customers Who Never Order 

SQL Schema

Table: Customers

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| id          | int     |
| name        | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
id is the primary key column for this table.
Each row of this table indicates the ID and name of a customer.

 

Table: Orders

+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| id          | int  |
| customerId  | int  |
+-------------+------+
id is the primary key column for this table.
customerId is a foreign key of the ID from the Customers table.
Each row of this table indicates the ID of an order and the ID of the customer who ordered it.

 

Write an SQL query to report all customers who never order anything.

Return the result table in any order.

The query result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
Customers table:
+----+-------+
| id | name  |
+----+-------+
| 1  | Joe   |
| 2  | Henry |
| 3  | Sam   |
| 4  | Max   |
+----+-------+
Orders table:
+----+------------+
| id | customerId |
+----+------------+
| 1  | 3          |
| 2  | 1          |
+----+------------+
Output: 
+-----------+
| Customers |
+-----------+
| Henry     |
| Max       |
+-----------+

Solution :

# Write your MySQL query statement below

SELECT c.name as Customers

FROM Customers c

Left Join Orders o

On c.id = o.customerId

where o.customerId is null

Approach :

Our table needs to include all the Customers from Customer table, which led to using LEFT JOIN. Further customers with null values of customerId shows the customer who never order, which is filtered out by WHERE clause.

Happy Learning!